One might imagine that the sheer messiness of those involuntary consequences could be just as inconvenient as the "operose and diabolical ... machination" that ❋ Unknown (2006)
They do not sow barley without very copious manure, and then they expect from it ten for one, an increase equal to that of better countries; but the culture is so operose that they content themselves commonly with oats; and who can relate without compassion, that after all their diligence they are to expect only a triple increase? ❋ Unknown (2003)
Goliath, hath been often cast to the ground, so I heartily wish that the many operose, prolix answers which the boasting of our adversaries hath drawn forth had not got, [for] this poor nothing, more repute a thousand times than its own strength, or any addition of force from the managers of it could have procured unto it. ❋ 1616-1683 (1967)
That there is such a merit attending the death of Christ is apparent from what was said before; neither is the weight of any operose proving [of] it imposed on us, by our adversaries seeming to acknowledge it no less themselves; so that we may take it for granted (until our adversaries close with the Socinians in this also). ❋ 1616-1683 (1967)
First, his gifts and graces were not only decried, but almost excluded from the public worship of the church, by the imposition of an operose form of service, to be read by the minister; which to do is neither a peculiar gift of the Holy Ghost to any, nor of the ministry at all. ❋ 1616-1683 (1965)
These observations, however, may suffice, lest we be too operose in demonstrating a matter that is so plain and perspicuous. ❋ 1560-1609 (1956)
_, 'Poemata eius etiam praelegi memini, confici vero ac proponi, non tantum operose et diligenter, sed et inepte quoque.' ❋ Thomas Ross Mills (N/A)
All these operose proceedings were adopted by one of the most decided tyrants in the rolls of history, as necessary preliminaries, before he could venture, by bribing the members of his two servile houses with a share of the spoil, and holding out to them an eternal immunity from taxation, to demand a confirmation of his iniquitous proceedings by an act of Parliament. ❋ Unknown (1909)
Some of the Xenia are far-fetched and operose, while others sound rather vacuous. ❋ Calvin Thomas (1886)
The atmosphere of operose indolence, prolonged through centuries and centuries, stifles; nor can antiquity and influence impose upon a mind which resents monkery itself as an essential evil. ❋ John Addington Symonds (1866)
In 1646 he printed his second book, the largest and most operose of all his productions: the 'Pseudodoxia Epidemica, or Inquiries into Vulgar and Common Errors' the work evidently of the _horæ subsecivæ_ of many years. ❋ Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle (1864)
Browne might himself have obtained the same conviction by a method less operose, if he had thrust his needles through corks, and then set them afloat in two basons of water. ❋ 1605-1682 (1863)
Subjects, 28 ff., who maintains that it is a rule, almost without exception, that “operose or complicated manufactures” are cheapest in rich countries; “raw materials,” in poor ones. ❋ Wilhelm Roscher (1855)
Wynd on that eventful night, fifteen years before, to bring Mrs. Hislop to the house in Meggat's Land; -- one of those simple souls -- we wish there were more of them in the world -- who look upon a lie as rather an operose affair, and who seem to be truthful from sheer laziness. ❋ Alexander Leighton (1837)
Nay, of so much importance was this beautiful art, and to such perfection was it brought at a time when a lady's petticoat, embroidered by the hand, with its profuse imitations of natural objects, flowers, and birds, and strange devices, would often cost twenty pounds Scots, that a sight of one of those operose achievements of genius would make us blush for our time and the labours of our women. ❋ Alexander Leighton (1837)
As education is a thing necessary for all; for the poor and for the rich, for the illiterate as well as for the learned; Providence has not made in dependent upon systems uncertain, operose, and difficult of investigation. ❋ Unknown (1825)
They were conducted on a scale of grandeur and expense which may still surprise; but taste as yet was in its infancy, and the whole was characterized by the unmerciful tediousness, the ludicrous incongruities, and the operose pedantry of a semi-barbarous age. ❋ Lucy Aikin (1822)
To kill one's own mutton is but an operose way of arriving at a dinner, and often a more costly way; whereas to combine one's own carpenter, locksmith, hair-dresser, groom, &c., all in one man's person, -- to have a ❋ Thomas De Quincey (1822)
Check out that [operose] [rootin] for those lousy [canes] ❋ Hooters (2003)
[See] [www].tsncentral.[com] ❋ Bob Smith (2003)
